Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies - Hardcover

Fabozzi, Frank J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0136078974 ISBN 13: 9780136078975

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2009

Synopsis

Learn how to assess and invest in bonds with this best-selling text. Fabozzi's Bond Markets is the most applied book on the market. It prepares students to analyze the bond market and manage bond portfolios without getting bogged down in the theory. The author's extensive experience in the field is reflected in this uniquely applied approach. This seventh edition has been painstakingly updated. The author conducted numerous conversations and discussions with analysts and portfolio managers to make sure that this text reflects the field today. Pricing of Bonds; Measuring Yield; Bond Price Volatility; Factors Affecting Bond Yields and the Term Structure of Interest Rates; Treasury and Agency Securities; Corporate Debt Instruments; Municipal Securities; Non-U.S. Bonds; Residential Mortgage Loans; Agency Mortgage Pass-through Securities; Agency Collateralized Mortgage Obligations and Stripped Mortgage-Backed Securities; Prime and Subprime Mortgage-Backed Secur

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From the Publisher:

This comprehensive textbook on bonds takes a practical real-world approach to the subject. It includes a detailed discussion of each type of bond including a wide range of products. The text features comprehensive discussion of not only the instruments, but their investment characteristics, the state-of-the art technology for valuing them, and portfolio strategies for using them.

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This comprehensive reference on bonds takes a practical real-world approach to the subject. It contains detailed presentations of each type of bond and includes a wide range of products. Extensive discussions include not only the instruments, but also their investment characteristics, the state-of-the art technology for valuing them, and portfolio strategies for using them. Chapter topics include pricing, measuring yield, price volatility, municipal securities, non-U.S. bonds, performance measurement and evaluation, and interest-rate options. For portfolio managers and analysts in their quest for sound investments, and for individuals seeking to become more knowledgeable investors.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0136078974
• ISBN 13: 9780136078975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 778